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About Jacksonville sentinel. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1903-1906 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1903)
Safe and Sure » DREDGING IN SOUTHERN OREGON. I A A I I I I I I This past sensor, ilreilging was revived in Southern Oregon, after a lajise of sev j etal years, anil alter several previous at- tempts and failures, ns the decaying I | hulks of stranded "gold ships” on South I ern Oregon streams will prove. It was I : known at the beginning that the bars I ! ami river beds of this district carried I gold, but the methods used at first were .7 I ' not of the kind that warranted success. I | The dredging diggings of the Southern * URES COUGHS, COLDS, CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, I ¡Oregon fields are det p, and a machine WHOOPING COUGH. SORE THROAT, HOARSENESS, I I mutt lx- built to Koop possibly forty five, LOSS OF VOICE, LOdSENS THE PHLEGM AND EASES I fifty or even seventy feet. Also, there jjt.- I 1 are heavy boulders, and the difficulties EXPECTORATION, HEALS THE LUNGS. C Endorsed by leading physicians as the BEST remedy for Children’s Croup and Whooping Cough because it contains NO OPIATES. The action of Ballard's Hore hound Syrup is mild and benign, it is adapted to infants, as well asadultsof every variety of temperament and constitution. Read This RemarKable Testimonial. MRS. B. W. EVANS. Clearwater. Ka».. writes:—"My husband was sick for three months and the doctors told me he had quick con sumption. We procured a bottle of Ballard's Horehound Syrup, and it cured him. He is now a well man, but we always keep a bottle in the house, and think it has no equal for pulmonary diseases." Easy to Take; Sure to Cure; Every Bottle Guaranteed. THREE SIZESi 25c. 5Oc, »1.00. BALLARD’S SNOW LINIMENT CO., - ST. LOUIS, MO. SOLD AND RECOMMENDED BY CITY DRUG STORE, JACKSONVILLE, OREGON Union Livery Stables Rigs on short notice for timber cruisers, com mercial men, mining men, sawmill men, all kinds of men or parties. Horses fed at rea sonable rates. Geo. N. Lewis, Prop., CITY MEAT HENRY W. Jacksonville MARKET ORTH, PHOP ALL KINDS OF FRESH MEATS :: WHOLESALE and RETAIL :: Special attention given to orders from a distance for Mining Camps and .Mills. .Meats shipped promptly and in first-class condition. SILAS J. DAY GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Office one block south of Courthouse JACKSONVILLE. • • OREGON UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER Filings and final proof made on homesteads and timber claims. Corrected plats showing all vacant lands. NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Legal papers of all kinds made out. Special attention given to papers in settlement of estate». ABSTRACTER OF TITLES, Most complete set of alwtract books in the county, Abstracts made promptly and ac curately. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Fine list of country and town property for sale and rent. MONEY LOANED. Warrant-» bought and sold. Collections made Taxes paid Rents collected. Prompt reply to all letters. Charges reasonable. REFERENCES: Hon. H. K. Hanna, judge of 1st judicial dis« trict, and any Jacksonville business man. A Homey Magazine each month helpful practical and inspiring. Fall of fascinat ing features. Beautifully illustrated. A million readers! $1.00 per year. 10 cents a copy. A FREE sample copy to all requesting. AGENTS WANTED Goon H ovsf .KKRPINO wants a siibscrip- tion representative in every city and town in the west. To those who will give all or a portion of their time it offers attractive work and pays exdeedingly liberal com missions. ft will pay you to investigate. A postal card will bring particulars, Write at once s> as to be the first in your field. THE PHELPS PUBLISHING CO Pacific Coast Office, 59 Columbian liuilcing, San Francisco, Cal. AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE FOR ALL THE FAMILY Mmssm ■ I I I I I I these present must l>e met and overcome to insure success. ple dumping facilities. The entire craft is ojwrated and controlled by one man stationed in the "pilot house' ’ over look ing the machine. As before stated, there is a field for dredging operations in Southern Oregon But the field offers success only to the right kind of jieople with the right kind of machine. Dredgers that will wash Ihe gravel of the California and other west ern fields, would not work at all in Ore gon, for reasons already stated, (hue under way, dredging is no more expen sive here than in any other section of the west. With two big power dams on Rogue river, power is transmitted by electric wire to any section of the south ern Oregon district, arid supplied mon- cheaply than can lie secured by steam The Foots Cree k machine first derixtd its jrower from two l<)0 horsepowt r (■oilers, and while there is an abundance of fir and pir.e tit»ter < n the property <-f the company to supply fuel for all time, they find electric power in tn the C< n dor di tn ninth iheajer ar.d of much hrs trouble. On many tributaries of the Rogue and Applegate rivers, and of the Illinois, as well as on these streams themselves, there is considerable (hedging ground, a great jurt of which will undoubtedly l>e I I worked within the next few )rar», as I several companies are planning to launch machines. One has lieeu in operation for several months on Foots Creek, and I has paid h mdsomcly from the beginning. I Another is to lie placed <>n Willow Creek, A recent dispatch from Medford states I near Jacksonville and another on the that the fiatteriig showing made by le I Illinois near Waldo. cent retort» of ore» fr< tn the cinnal i r ' The Foot-» Cietk dredger is owned and mines of the Meadow« quicksilver dir- -operated bv the Champlin coni|>any, experienced jwople in the dredging bus trict, of Jackson County, near Trail, I a* iness, as they have Ix-en ojarating two caused a revival of intrrc»t in the min machines near Bannock, Montana, for ing of mercury in this section. Highly several years. This machine WR» bllilt l>ound» of mercury to the ton la product d ut a total cost of about fl 10,000. The by the properties of the Rogue Riur comjMiiy owns some IJtXX) acres of Quicksilver Mining Company, the shait- ground on Foots Creek, a large part of ¡holders of which are Medford mtn. ' The ore reduces easily and is uniform in whice is available for dredging. 1 value. This mine ha« j roduced consul The hull of fbe Champlin dredger 113 feet long and is of the standard pat arable quicksilver in recent years, but its tern. An eighty-foot digging beam or : development has been slow, greater cap ladder constitutes the frame for the chain ital being needed to o|en it tip and ude- of forty two eight cubic foot buckets quately equip it. A small plant is | lac and tlieir alternating links. Power is ed, for development purpores mainly. , supplied by electricity from the power The retort installed has a capacity of . daiu of the Condor company, ut Gold 1400 pounds of ore ] er e'ay. The mine Ray, and is transmitted into a lifting is opened to a depth of nearly 2U) feet, power on the chaining and buckets of and the v< in shows up well throughout. There are a half-score of other cinna 80,OM) pounds. This allows a maximum bar mints in the Meadows district, all of capacity for the machine of 4,500 yards, ¡daily, with an easy average of 2,500 which are receiving attention, anti all \ ards. Another bad feature of Southern carry values in mercury, with also a fair Oregon dredging ground is the tightness showing in gold and silver. A nvmltr , of the gravel, as it clings together as are opened to a depth of 150 and 200feet, i solidly as if cemented. This requires a with veins varying in width from ten in great amount of water and ceaseless agi ches to three and four feet. The iinm i tation to perfect the sejxiration of the her of excellent prospects in the district makes the Meadows one of promise as a , particles and free the gold. future producer of mercury. The Foots creek machine overcomes l<irqc Per Cent of Mercury. , - ; ! this difficulty by first giving the gravel a thorough shaking up by a ten foot sheer drop into the hopper from the buckets The gravel is then received into a revolv ing grizzly. This grizzly has five inch perforations and is supplied with a num tier of water jets to give additional water. The boulders slide over the grizzly and drop off the side of the boat. The re- mainder of the material passes through the funnel-shaped bottom of the case sur- rounding the grizzly to a shoot sluice j that leads to a second receptacle or sump. This short sluice >s provided with Hun garian riffles, and here at least seventy- | five per cent of the gold particles are I caught. From the sump the sand and gravel | are elevated by a centrifugal sand pump I to the head of the 120 foot sluice-flume, ■ which is also provided with Hungarian riffles. The flume has a drop from end to end of eight feet, and is supported by i a pontoon, and with only a four foot dump above the water level. But this | dump is fully 240 feet from the digger Watches of the best standard makes for sale now at almost cost. Inquire of J. W. Hickel. Those big, juicy oranges come from Learned’s where a big shipment has just l<e« n retrieved. Hickel, the Jacksonville jeweler, has some fine Waltham and Elgin watches, warranted for 21) years, and full gold i ascs that lie will sell at a close margin of pro- Nunan—Taylor Company have a new invoice of trunks, grips, valices and telescopes and persons fitting out for a journey will find it profitable to buy of this firm. Presiding Elder M. C. Wire will be here March, 21, 22, 23 and have part in the Revival Services. ’ _________ ....... -- —-—. The Second Quar- terly Conference will be held af l the Church on March 22, at 7:.'«) p. m. All interested please take notice. The Sentinel desires to give its sub- scribers the news from all parts of tlie county hence we want a good, live, cor- respondent at all the leading postoffices in the county where there is no paper published. Send in the news and you and with the swing allowed, affords am will tie treated right. 0 «
